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- Altova XMLSpy Professional Edition 2010 (Windows)
- Altova XMLSpy 2010 Professional Edition is the industry-leading XML editor and XML development environment, with intuitive editing views and powerful XML utilities to model, edit, transform, and debug XML-related technologies quickly and easily. In addition to the world's most popular XML editor, XMLSpy Professional includes a graphical XML Schema editor...
- Software downloads 2009-11-16
- Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud
- Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- The 2010 Productivity Tool Bonanza - Microsoft, Google, Zoho & Open Standards
- On the eve of what looks to be a major Microsoft productivity products year in 2010 with the Windows 7 operating system, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, MOSS/SharePoint 2010 and Azure it's interesting to look at how the market for these products serve has changed. ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- WSO2 moves data services component to OSGI-based Carbon framework
- Moving to expand its user base to more database folks, WSO2 is releasing the promised data services component to Carbon, the open source company’s new modular service-oriented architecture SOA framework based on the OSGi component model. WSO2 Data Services is “completely re-architected†for Carbon’s componentized approach to...
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- 'Private cloud' = just another buzzword for on-premise datacenter?
- VMware made its big "private cloud" pitch last week with its introduction of vSphere. Not to be outdone, Microsoft is fleshing out its private cloud positioning at the annual Microsoft Management Summit this week in Las Vegas. Whether or not they admit it publicly (or just express...
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Oracle to Buy Sun - View from the Virtual World
- If Oracle's acquisition of Sun actually becomes a market reality, it will most certainly change the dynamics of the market for servers, operating systems, development tools, database management systems, applications and, of course, virtualization technology. Let's take a dark view of the possibilities in each area. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?
- Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?Is our culture holding us back?I'm thinking that one of the big challenges to moving forward with any information technology is cultural change. We've seen an amazing capacity for younger generations those in their teens and twenties today to be able...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- RISE Editor 2.5.0.1 (Windows)
- RISE software for Entity Relationship Diagram ERD modeling and Managed Information Models MIM lets you create dynamic solutions based on a programmable relational database with application layer for quick development and deployment of your applications. Featuring a drawing interface for drawing ER models, creating specifications that are so consistent, correct,...
- Software downloads 2009-02-19
- Daolite for .NET 1.12 (Windows)
- Daolite is a powerful Data Access library that bridges between the object world and the world of relational databases. Your business model components can access the Data Access Objects created based on Daolite as needed to maintain the data properly and conveniently.(Our DaoliteMappingTool can help create Data Access Objects based...
- Software downloads 2008-12-18
- 'Semantic Web for Business' ultimately misses the mark
- Weighing in at 416 text-packed pages, Semantic Web for Business could have been the latest attempt to bridge the divide between the university hotbeds of Semantic Web research and a business community ripe for persuading of semantic technologies' multifarious benefits. In that, though, the volume proves ultimately unsatisfying and a...
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Getting started with ADO.NET's Entity Framework
- The ADO.NET Entity Framework is a new way to build the data access layer of your Windows or web applications. It's an Object Relational Mapping ORM technology that makes it easy to tie together the data in your database with the objects in your applications, by abstracting the object model...
- Download resources 2008-11-21
- Beyond findability: The search for active intelligence
- Beyond findability: The search for active intelligenceIs Google Froogal?I don't know really, it seems to me the new great business model created by Google and the likes has benefited advertisers far more than the general public. It's almost impossible to find a fun user created site in all of...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-31
- XML Vectorization: A Column-Based XML Storage Model
- The usual method for storing tables in a relational database is to store each tuple contiguously in secondary storage. A simple alternative is to store the columns contiguously, so that a table is represented as a set of vectors all of the same length. It has been shown that such...
- White papers 2008-10-20
- Any chance our student data could be consistent?
- Any chance our student data could be consistent?Analyzing Data fromTestsChris,Download the openIntel data model from os4ed.com and out your data in there for analysis using any of the free reporting tools available. (BIRT, Pentaho, Jasper, etc.) The data model was designed by Maurice Frank, the creator of the...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- BI Crystal Ball ââ¬" Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think
- Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Why do you want WinFS?
- Why do you want WinFS?same questionI posted exactly the same question to AKH article talkback. It will be interesting to see the answers.This makes everything so easy, now.If MS doesn't deliver it, then it's not really a necessary technology or all that important.It makes life so much easier when every...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Oracle Symfony in PHP Minor
- Symfony is a very popular model-View-Controller MVC framework for creating Web applications quickly and efficiently. Like many such tools, it uses an Object-Relational Mapper ORM called Propel. Symfony is a large and complex application generator with many options, and describing it in a relatively small article isn't an easy task....
- White papers 2008-07-01
- Advantages of XML as a Data Model for a CRIS
- This paper presents advantages of using a hierarchical, XML-based data model as the basis for a CRIS, as opposed to the relational model, which is currently recommended by EuroCRIS. The main benefits lie in the relatively easy way to model data, since there is no need to create and maintain...
- White papers 2008-06-24
- A UMan robotic arm
- Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a mobile robotic arm which can manipulate objects by 'seeing' its environment through a digital camera. This robotic arm, dubbed UMan, or UMass Mobile Manipulator, can 'approach unfamiliar objects, such as scissors, garden shears and jointed wooden toys -- and learn...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- RPG, PHP, and history
- While thinking through some of the comments recorded here as part of our discussion of development languages and environments I finally figured out what PHP reminds me of: RPG. RPG [Report generator] started out in the IBM 360 world as a report formatting aid, but never really...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
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